Below Ground

Alexei didn’t like the idea of bringing Neave along on their journey to find out where the Proto Lord was hiding, but he knew that really he had no choice on the matter.

If they stuck her in her room there was a pretty large chance that she’d just end up following after them anyway, which was more dangerous than knowing he could at least try to keep her safe.

That was why he was keeping Neave close as they were walking through the woods around the town.

They had asked around after breakfast, hoping to discover places that the Proto Lord might have been hiding.

According to various shopkeepers, there was a cavern to the north of the town that cut down into the dirt and entered an extensive tunnel system that used to be mined for various ores back in the town’s heyday.

The veins of ore had long since dried up, so it would be the perfect place for something like the Proto Lord to hide unseen by anyone in the town.

However, a place like that was also somewhere that various dangerous